UMaine engineering students help Orono protect and reimagine Webster Park

UMaine engineering students help Orono protect and reimagine Webster Park

ORONO — In Orono, Webster Park stretches along the Stillwater River on Marsh Island, where walking trails pass picnic tables and the shoreline draws residents to fish, swim and paddle. But along parts of the riverbank, unofficial foot traffic access points are causing erosion that is wearing away the land and sending sediment into the water. “Shoreline erosion is depositing sediment into the river, which serves an Atlantic Salmon habitat. Theref…